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Vapers Digest 22nd March

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Nationals propose easing of vaping rules for adults,

arguing it is a ‘common sense approach’

ABC.Net.Au

The Nationals want to ease rules around nicotine vapes in Australia, to provide access to them as a tool to help adults quit smoking, while tightening rules around young people accessing the highly addictive products.

The party has adopted a formal position at odds with the current health approach in Australia, which only allows access to nicotine vapes with a prescription.

World Health Organisation plans ‘global assault on vaping’ says NNA

Tony Corbin, Talking Retail

New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) has called on its supporters, consumers of reduced risk nicotine products, and “others who understand the benefits of harm reduction” to act on “significant threats” planned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) later this year.

The World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) takes place on 20-25 November in Panama City. This is a biennial event under the auspices of the FCTC treaty, attended by all 193 WHO member governments including the treaty’s 182 Parties (national delegations) to the Convention and other non-Party members accredited to the WHO.

Norway spared from controversial ban on flavoured snus: report

SnusForumNet

A proposed ban on flavoured snus will not be among the measures included in the Norwegian government’s new tobacco strategy, according to media reports.Norwegian health minister Ingvild Kjerkol is set to release a new public health report on March 31st that will include several proposals that would tighten tobacco regulation.

Comments from politicians ahead of the report’s release indicated that a ban on flavoured snus and a lifetime tobacco ban for people born after 2008 were both “on the table”, sparking concerns among public health experts.

One  from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Further COPD Evidence

Dr Riccardo Polosa is associated with yet another study showing the positive impact of switching from tobacco to vaping in COPD patients. Researchers have been saying for a number of years that smokers suffering from COPD should consider switching to vaping. Anecdotal evidence from the Planet of the Vapes’ forum supported this suggestion as members recounted their own personal stories. In his latest paper, Dr Riccardo Polosa repeats the advice.

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Current vaping regulations rejected by vapers and doctors – report

Dr Colin Mendelsohn, ColinMendelsohn.com.au

A NEW REPORT by London-based Independent Economics LLC has found that vaping nicotine is skyrocketing in Australia in spite of strict regulations. Smokers and doctors have rejected the prescription model and this is unlikely to change, even with greater restrictions and enforcement.

The report sends a clear message to the government that the prescription model has failed and that future improvements are unlikely if the prescription policy continues.

Nery Zarate, The Conversation

Vaping regularly makes headlines, with some campaigning to make e-cigarettes more available to help smokers quit, while others are keen to see vaping products banned, citing dangers, especially for teens.

So just how dangerous is it? We have undertaken an evidence check of vaping research. This included more than 100 sources on tobacco harm reduction, vaping prevalence and health effects, and what other countries are doing in response. Here’s what we found.

AVM Acquires “Confidential” FDA Review Documenting Benefits of Vaping

American Vapor Manufacturers

A recent AVM Freedom of Information request has uncovered confidential documents showing that the FDA has known for years that vaping is safer than smoking and helps smokers quit. The agency nevertheless misled the public about those facts, as we documented in our analysis of the study here and here.

Reynolds Vapor gains temporary stay from FDA ruling banning menthol e-cigarettes

Richard Craver, Journal Now

R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. can keep marketing — at least temporarily — two menthol styles of top-selling electronic cigarette Vuse after the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay Monday.

On Friday, for the second time in less than two months, the Food and Drug Administration denied Reynolds Vapor’s applications to market two menthol styles of top-selling electronic cigarette Vuse.

2 constables dismissed in Bengaluru

TNN, Times Of India

Two constables from Adugodi police station, who had threatened and extorted money from a couple found smoking e-cigarettes near a shopping mall, have been dismissed from service.

DCP (southeast) CK Baba said the constables are Malappa Valikar and Aravind. A departmental inquiry had been ordered against the two on December 12 last year after a couple tweeted that the cops had extorted Rs 4,000 from them for smoking.

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Study Shows How Much Vapes Can Help..

Smokers With Schizophrenia – Helen Redmond

A groundbreaking study from Italy with adults who have schizophrenia spectrum disorders found that using JUUL vapes helped some 40 percent of participants to stop smoking traditional cigarettes by the end of 12 weeks. This finding is of enormous importance because smoking prevalence among people with this diagnosis is a staggering 60 to 90 percent, and there are no signs of the numbers decreasing.

European Studies Point To A Gateway..

Out Of Smoking – Soko Directory

MAJOR new international research proves Kenya is trailing the rest of the world in embracing the latest technology to reduce deaths from smoking.

A study by Public Health England (PHE) found there is growing evidence that alternative nicotine delivery products play a crucial role in helping people to give up smoking.

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